Review: As the pleasingly matter-or-fact title makes clear, this compilation gathers together 15 of the standout tracks released by Dresden label Uncanny Valley in 2019. As you'd expect, it offers a tastily off-kilter collection of cuts that variously mix and match elements of deep house, cheery nu-disco, dub disco, acid-fired early morning anthems, saucer-eyed hardcore rave revivalism, superior tech-house and throbbing electro-disco, with the contributions from Credit OO, Jules Etienne, Perel, The Golden Filter, Jor-El and Break SL standing out. That said, all 15 tracks are superb and firmly focused on the dancefloor. In a word: essential.
Review: Already responsible for EPs this year on Semantica and Figure Jams, Albert Van Abbe now makes his debut on the long-established Echocord Colour. Klangbilder is more streamlined and direct than some of the Dutch producer's earlier material.The first "Klangbilder" revolves around tough, rolling drums, steely percussion and eerie synth lines that insinuate their way through the percussive arrangement. On the second instalment, a nagging analogue sound prevails thanks to Van Abbe's use of shuffling drums, rough tones and bleep sequences. "Klangbilder 3" is more reflective and slower, as he paints an atmospheric picture, while the fourth and final iteration continues to explore this mood with a wonderfully expansive sound scape.
Review: First surfacing in 2011 with the "synaesthetic media" platform of his No Comment series, Dutchman Albert Van Abbe has become one of the more consistently engaging producers from the Lowlands, offering an approach that sits somewhere between Drexciyan wave and Raster-Noton bleep. This was perhaps best demonstrated on last year's debut LP Patch For Series Active Mutations Of Self-reproducing Networks and after being invited to release on the Curle label earlier this year, Van Abbe is back with the eighth no Comment release. Both "Rytumtraks 0002.2" and "Rytumtraks 0020.2" find Van Abbe in brutally deep form, coming off dustier than any of the previous No Comment transmissions and there's a killer contribution from Rudolf Klorzeiger, seemingly coaxed out of hiding to transform "Rytumtraks 0002" into a superb slab of rigid electro.
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